Cinderella story

Original text: A long time ago, in a kingdom, there lived a king and queen. They had no children and were very sad and annoyed.

One day, when the queen was taking a bath in the bathtub, a little crab suddenly appeared and said to her: "Dear queen, you will give birth to a daughter in six months!" After that, she disappeared. . The queen was very happy when she heard this.

Six months later, the queen really gave birth to a daughter, and the king was also very happy. He decided to hold a banquet. He not only invited his good friends, but also the magicians to let them Come bless your daughter.

There were thirteen magicians in his kingdom, but the king only had twelve golden bowls to entertain the magicians, so he only invited twelve magicians, and one Not invited.

The banquet began. One of the magicians gave her virtue, another gave her beauty, and another gave her wealth. They gave her all human expectations and benefits.

After the eleventh magician finished her blessing, the thirteenth magician suddenly broke into the palace and pushed away the twelfth magician who wanted to bless the princess. Since the king did not Invite her, she is here for revenge, she said viciously: "You all prick up your ears and listen, the princess was pricked by a spinning machine and died when she was eighteen years old!" After that, she walked through the crowd and left. go.

The guests were frightened, and the queen also began to cry. At this time, the twelfth magician who had not yet given the gift came over. Although she could not cancel the spell, she could alleviate it a little. So she said: "The princess will not die when she is eighteen years old. She will just sleep for a hundred years and wait until someone who truly loves her appears to break the spell."

In order to prevent this, the king The curse came true, and he ordered the destruction of all spinning machines in the country, and forbade people to tell the princess the curse of the thirteenth magician.

Day by day, the little princess became more beautiful day by day, and the blessings of the twelve magicians came true on her.

On the princess's eighteenth birthday, the king and queen were not in the palace. The princess went for a walk alone. While she was walking, she passed a bell tower.

She walked up the stairs and opened the door. There was an old woman inside, weaving cloth on a spinning machine. She asked: "Grandma, what are you doing?"

"Weaving," the old woman replied.

The princess also wanted to try it, but as soon as she touched the spinning machine, she fell to the ground and lost consciousness.

The old lady next to her laughed. It turned out that she was the thirteenth magician. She said viciously to the princess: "This is your father's punishment for not inviting me to the banquet!" Eighteen years ago The curse really came true!

But the princess did not die, she just fell to the ground and fell asleep.

The king and queen found the princess asleep in the bell tower, so they called the twelfth magician and asked her to help. The twelfth magician asked them to put the princess on the bed, and then she helped the princess. Putting on the most beautiful clothes, she finally asked the king and queen to return to the palace, and waved her magic wand. The king and queen fell asleep, as did the soldiers, people, and animals, and even the people on the stove fell asleep. The fire also went out.

Soon, thorns grew up around the palace until the roof was no longer visible.

I heard that this legend attracted many princes. They tried to go through the thorns to save the princess, but they all failed.

On this day, another prince came. He wanted to go in to see the princess, but a kind man told him that many princes went to save the princess and were stabbed to death by thorns.

But the prince must go to see the princess. When he arrived in front of the palace, a hundred years had passed, and the thorns turned into blooming roses, and a road appeared.

The prince was attracted by the princess's beauty and couldn't help but kiss her, and the princess woke up.

Soon, the prince and the princess got married, and they lived happily together.

When the thirteenth magician found out that the curse had been lifted, she fainted in anger, and she also turned into fallen leaves and scattered.